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...effect on Korea would be bad. - (a) If it becomes independent. - (1) Not permanent: Forum, Oct. 1894. p. 220. - (2) Continuance of present system of government: Nat Rev. Oct. p. 268. - (b) If Korea becomes a dependency of Japan. - (1) Japan's influence had heretofore: Con. Rev. Sept. '94, 311. - (2) Japan would squeeze it: No. Am Rev., Sept. p. 308. - (3) Continual rebellions: No. Am. Rev. Sept...
Attack on the Observatory in Peru.Rumors have been circulated to the effect that the Harvard Observatory in Peru has been attacked and that injury has been done to the valuable instruments. Professor Pickering entertains strong hopes that these rumors are ill-founded, and that they will prove to have been started by the raid on the station situated at El Misti...
Ninety-seven's team work was decidedly better than they have shown before and their play showed the effect of judicious coaching...
...income tax is an excellent and efficient tax economically considered. - (a) The greatest possible amount of the total tax levied gets into the treasury. - (1) Paid directly into the hands of the government: Nation, IX, 452 (1869). - (b) Its operation does not have the deleterious effect of tariff taxes. - (1) It does not affect the normal distribution of capital. - (2) It does not benefit one class over another. - (c) Its operation improves the longer it is tried: Richard T. Ely, Political Economy, 257. - (d) The incidence of the tax can not be shoved on to some other individual or other...
Calhoun, J. C. Statesmen Series, p. 114. Forebodings of Calhoun as to effect of Jackson's Spoils System...